A stillroom was where a house made its medicines.
We named the company after it.
From the sixteenth century, large houses in England kept a room for distilling: cordials, tinctures, waters, ointments. It held a copper still, a balance and shelves of bottles, and the person who ran it wrote down every recipe and every result in a stillroom book.
The name says what we want to be. A quiet room where medicines are made carefully and every result is written down. Ours happens to be 525 km up for twelve days at a time.
The flights carry the names of plants those rooms used: feverfew, tansy, comfrey, lovage, yarrow.
Tonsley, Adelaide
The cleanroom where cassettes are loaded, and the lab where they are opened. Twenty-six people.
Lake Hart
The landing zone, 490 km north. A crew of six drives up two days before each landing.
Vandenberg, California
Where the capsule is handed to the launch provider. Two of us travel with it.
Open roles
- Crystallization scientistAdelaide · Runs ground screens and reads flight results with partners
- Thermal engineerAdelaide · Owns the cassette's ± 0.1 °C, from the cleanroom to the lab
- Flight software engineerAdelaide or remote in Australia · Separation, entry and beacon software
- Recovery leadAdelaide, with travel to Woomera · Runs the landing crew and the drive south